THE freedom to identify and belong to a country that values and protects life should be the right of every citizen to enjoy. Such high values of equality, justice and balanced morality informed the intentions and vivid hope of those who fought for the independence of Zambia from the 1930s until 1964 when it was won.It is the same compass that motivated the citizenry to restore democracy in 1991. To start from the beginning, national interest, in the form of Nationalism, was constructed and construed by the freedom fighters to reign above tribe or regionalism and every other conceivable excuse to disunite a people. Nationalism, for ease of interpretation, conveys a sense of belonging to a specific national identity or country. It is a concept and reality of a whole, a total sum composed of many and not a concept a special few to above all others. Obviously, it was not an easy task to dream […]
NATIONALISM. PATRIOTISM. DEMOCRACY
